Micron Technology shares lost ground in late trading Thursday after the memory chip maker posted disappointing results for its fiscal second quarter ended March 1. For the quarter, Micron reported revenue of $2.1 billion, flat with a year ago, but a bit ahead of the Street at $2.02 billion. The company lost 23 cent a ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:55

Micron Tehcnology shares are trading higher this morning after Bernstein Research analyst Mark Newman upped his rating on the company to Outperform from Market Perform, with a new price target of $11.20, up from $8. His basic case is that a consolidation in the DRAM market is underway ? and that Micron is the best ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 14:53

? Earlier today, hundreds of Xbox Live gamers signed on to their accounts only to discover that their gamerscores had reset to zero. For those that don't obsessively watch their Xbox gamerscore, this is a gigantic deal: the gamerscore is an accumulation of all video achievements in the Xbox live environment - in some cases ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 00:55

Microsoft today is updating the software for its Xbox Live service, adding among other things new content and voice-controlled apps from Comcast?s video-on-demand service, HBO Go and MLB.TV. Note that in all cases the content requires separate fees; to get the Comcast access, you need to be a Comcast subscriber, etc. Microsoft has previously announced ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 15:28

Though Microsoft was 2-3 years late to the U.S. smartphone market, it has a chance of capturing some share in the relatively nascent smartphone markets in countries like China and other emerging markets.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 22:25

? Rumors about the Xbox 720, the Xbox next, Durango, or whatever it is one will call Microsoft's next console buzz through the blogosphere like so many flies. The biggest of these rumors was that Microsoft was going to get the jump on Sony and make the big reveal at E3 this year. Despite Microsoft ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 22:19

Should large companies continue to see large software vendors as their natural partners? Or in the world of social bsuiness does the little guy deserve a better shot at being your partner of choice?

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 16:25

Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Holt this morning repeated his Overweight rating on Microsoft shares, lifting his target on the stock to $37, from $33. While the analyst contends that that the company?s shares now discount some of the growing expectations for Windows 8, he says that there are other parts of the story that the ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 18:55

The viral seems to have a close cousin in the almost true. Two recent sensational stories, Mike Daisey's monologue about working conditions at the Chinese factories that make Apple products, and the KONY 2012 video, both owe some of their potency, it turns out, to fabrications and simplifications of the truth.

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 07:21

Minecraft continues to expand to other platforms, add features, and addict players.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 04:56